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I recently bought an Arima SW350 motherboard.
It supports 16 ddr simms as well as 2 opteron 2xx CPUs, so I imagine it may have pretty heavy power requirements...
It has a 24 pin ATX power connector, 2 4 pin "P4" power connectors, and an 8 pin EPS power connector.
My supermicro power supply has a 24 pin ATX connector and the EPS connector, and one P4 connector.
Can I safely run this thing with only one P4 connector plugged in? Can I safely get a "hard disk to P4" adapter and use that to power the other P4 connector on the motherboard? Do I just need a new power supply?
The board's documentation is pretty thin on the topic.
1Side note - I think they're DIMMs and not SIMMs – MDMarra – 2010-06-28T16:38:56.900
1I should have used the technical term "memory thingies" – chris – 2010-06-28T17:24:37.413
Of course they’re DIMMs; SIMMs were not DDR. – Synetech – 2011-03-08T18:59:01.927